On Thursday 24 February 2005 14:53, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:45:15AM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> There seems to be a lot of dissatisfaction with sendmail in the call to
> replace it with Exim or Postfix, but I didn't see any specifics about why
> people object to it. Anyone care to give details?
Most of the discusion has been about what should be the default. For
"newbies" sendmail can be a pain to configure. It's documentation leaves
something to be desired, and the default sendmail.cf file isn't all that
helpful.
That's not to say that sendmail isn't useful or does't work properly. It
does. But if a package is going to be the default for a distribution, it
should also be fairly simple for new users to configure and adapt to.
I take issue to that. sendmail has always been *TONS* easier for me to
configure then postfix/exim. the sendmail.mc file is simple to understand and
edit.
> I'm using sendmail together with MIMEDefang to run
SpamAssassin and
> ClamAV against messages during the SMTP transaction so that I can reject
> obvious spam and viruses before they're committed to a queue. MIMEDefang
> uses a user-edited Perl script to establish the exact rules for
> acceptance, making the system very flexible. How hard is that to set up
> in Postfix or Exim?
I haven't looked at postfix yet (will tonight maybe), but for exim all one
has to do is uncomment one line in the default config file once
spamassassin and a virus checker are installed. Very easy.
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